After four years of trying, we finally got tickets for a filming of the Daily Show. Now, given the blank looks I got when I went into work squeeing about tickets, I'd better explain. The Daily Show is one of Comedy Central's headline shows, and offers a satirical look at the news. It's also recognised as a more reliable news source than Fox News! As with Richard Cheese, YouTube is your friend, but again, NSFW!
So, the day involved a lot of queueing and hanging around. As with any show, they over subscribe the tickets to prevent empty seats.
We turned up at the studio around 1pm, for tickets being issued at 2.30. This put us pretty much head of the line. We were then told to come back for 4.45, when you're split into seating groups. The rules about what you can and can't do in the studio are straightforward and well explained but it's amazing how many people had iphones confiscated!
Once we're seated, the warm up guy comes out and explains how loudly we need to cheer for the mics - very - and gives us some practice. Then Jon Stewart, the host of the show, takes some q&as before filming begins.
The actual taping seemed to be over really quickly. Basically, what you see on screen is pretty much as filmed. As ever, the show was funny, my only moan would be that we missed Tom Hanks as a guest by one day.
Seeing the set was weird, looking at the, I guess, optical illusions used to create what we see on screen. A lot of what looks like 3d sets are flat matt backdrops but work really well on screen.
We're now watching back the show on tv, just to see what, if anything was edited!
Not sure what we've got planned for tomorrow - first day we haven't got anything booked.
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